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What makes it even funnier: The same thing happened, same thing, same place 6 years earlier:
What makes it even funnier: The same thing happened, same thing, same place 6 years earlier:
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Yeah, heavy traffic on the highway. Cut the median and get onto the service road to bypass traffic. This used to happen here in Louisiana as well. Now most of the medians are blocked by concrete walls or cabled fence.Can someone explain this to me? Is this really a thing?
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The northern states have a different highway system from what I have seen. Where yall have cloverleafs (and the like) to get directly on and off of highways, the south has frontage roads with on and off ramps back and forth. Texas still has cloverleafs, they just get on and off of the frontage road instead.Can someone explain this to me? Is this really a thing?
Get on Google maps street view and drive down any of the main highways in DFW or Houston and you will see how it's set up.
This means a "portage," like shown in the picture, is a natural illegal maneuver that people with high enough (as sometimes not) vehicles take when stuck in traffic on the highway. Sometimes it works out and sometimes those people get to spend their time sitting at a stop light/sign on the frontage road for longer than it would have taken in highway traffic.
Texas police WILL give people tickets and occasionally set up a whole line of cops handing out optional taxes for people who chose to put their name into that lottery.
Interior 4 lanes is the "highway" and the exterior is the "frontage road." People in Pick em' up trucks don't need official roads to switch between them when traffic is below 10mph or they see a sea of brake lights ahead:
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As an Aussie who has driven in Houston, I can tell you - it's fucking weird man - those 'frontage' roads? wow . . a total shitshow for actually getting places.The northern states have a different highway system from what I have seen. Where yall have cloverleafs (and the like) to get directly on and off of highways, the south has frontage roads with on and off ramps back and forth. Texas still has cloverleafs, they just get on and off of the frontage road instead.
Get on Google maps street view and drive down any of the main highways in DFW or Houston and you will see how it's set up.
This means a "portage," like shown in the picture, is a natural illegal maneuver that people with high enough (as sometimes not) vehicles take when stuck in traffic on the highway. Sometimes it works out and sometimes those people get to spend their time sitting at a stop light/sign on the frontage road for longer than it would have taken in highway traffic.
Texas police WILL give people tickets and occasionally set up a whole line of cops handing out optional taxes for people who chose to put their name into that lottery.
Interior 4 lanes is the "highway" and the exterior is the "frontage road." People in Pick em' up trucks don't need official roads to switch between them when traffic is below 10mph or they see a sea of brake lights ahead:
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Simple on-ramp and (as you call them) cloverleaf is a brilliant system that actually works.
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You are in Houston?! Fuck this place man no one knows how to merge, if you into pitbikes though hit me up we got a fun backyard track.
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